St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by McAuslan Brewing
Style: Stout
Montreal, Canada

Nose is chocolate, coffee, and you can smell the oats; Opaque walnut with a small tan head; Flavor is of coffee and roasted malts with some nice hop bitterness into the finish.

One of the better North American breweries puts out one of the continent’s best stouts. Pours black through and through with an appealingly tinted and lively head. Body is just right: not thin but not sticky either. Smooth: making "I’ll have another" come to mind before you are halfway through. Bitterness and strong chocolate malt flavors leave your tongue happy after every sip.

33 cl bottle. Tasted at home. Dark allmost black colour with a nice little head. Aroma of sweet chocolate and sweet caramel. Nice tasty flavour of coffee, chocolate and someway a touch of sourness. Ends up quite dry and little bitter.

12oz. Bottle: Aroma of chocolate, oats, cream, roasted malts, Ringwood yeast, and coffee. Poured black in color with a medium-sized, creamy, brown head that diminished but not totally. Opaque. Flavor is mildly sweet. Tastes of roasted malts, smoked, Ringwood yeast, coffee, oats, and some bitter chocolate. Medium body. Lightly chalky, slightly thin, texture. Soft carbonation. Roasted malt and oat finish.

Thanks to zathrus13 for this bottle of most-sought-after ale - Nearly opaque pour, with compact beige head - aroma of italian roast coffee, chocolate, plums, caramel, toffee (almost imperial-stout like aroma) - quite lactic and sweet, but a mellow roastiness asserts itself before the sweetness takes over the beer - slick mouthfeel, even with the medium body - dark roast coffee with a hint of cream is what mostly dominates the flavor, but the oatmeal, a bit of dried dark fruit, and a touch of toffee hang out in the background the whole time - although not as amazing as its reputation made me think it would be, this is a world-class stout.

The aroma is dark and toasty with chocolate, coffee, and a hint of smoke. The appearance is dark brown with a tan head. The flavor is like the aroma but too bitter. The palate is smooth. Overall it’s pretty good.

Re-Rate 06/06/02: Deep brown to black in color, large frothy chocolate head, great sheets of lace. Nose is toasted grains, coffee, chocolate, earhty and quite pleasant. Sweet at the front, full at the top, the finish is lightly carbonated, dry, nicely hopped and quite a good ’Stout’.

This is all that it’s cracked up to be. Glorioius head and nice cascading when poured in a tall glass. Super persistant head that actually forms an eternal peak when you poke your finger in it. Creosotic, pruney roasted ale aroma with a little hazelnut and chemical. Superbly balanced. Tasty and smooth. Not too sweet, bitter or otherwise. Nutty graininess and mild cocoa on top of the porter flavoring. Well done, well done.